The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1887-04-05
Meanwhile. by dint of going

the Young llssH hdS. dDic 10 Scitu hoiht
so good list of prospective customers
that the partners determined to estab-
Iish a branch office at Turin, and offeI
young Mathcrs subordinate post in it.
Nothing definite, however, mad been
fixed, when one day, Tommy. finding
Maria Marsoni alone when he called al
/ the villa, lost his head completely. and
/ was making love a well as his imper.
. feet knowledge of Italian permitted,
, when the Count. suddenly coming in.
rangnt him i'm the act of kissing his
( daughters hand. Maria fed like hare
disturbed on her form, and the Count
/ advanced with heavy frown OH his
! aristocratic brow.
! More as matter of form than any
I thing else. for he knew his case was
hopeless, Mathcrs formally asked the
! hand of the signorina I'm marriage, Law
! ing the blame of his irregular dcclara-
| ton on the strength of his passion and
his ignorance of Italian etiquette. The
Count heard him Ia the end. and then
surveyed him from head To foot with
look of contempt.
ut is piece of gross presumption in
VOLTA mere clerk, 4 nobody -to adj
dress my daughter said the Count at
last in English, with his chin in the air.
s'Of course" said TomKly, bitterly,
Stun@ bv the Count look. IF | were
a partner in HodgsOn's. though. YOU
would give me different answer"
''lf YOU Were Il partner in MeSsrs.
Hodgson, Dunford Il PARIS" said the
Count, with an altered expression,
'that would make difference. of
course; but as do not understand that
you have any prospect of entering that
firm, don't see how that affects YOU"
Tommy sighed. AMI made his escape
as soon as possible. He knew that he
might as well ask for the Lord Chan
cellorship as ask for a partnership in
the bank.
For two days he remained in a state
of collapse, and then he received adj
vices from London informing him of
the decision To which the firm had come
with respect To the new branch. A few
months before MatherS would have been
transported with delight at the proposal
which the firm made To him, but now he
considered that he was getting barely
his due, and, besides, he WAS sd cut up
with respect to the beautiful Maria that
mere commercial matters did not pos
sess their usual interest for him.
Ill I. -, ell . L.
ter bearing the well-known signature
before him, Tommy conceived an idea.
Without moments delay hc called
for his bin at the hotel. sent waiter
for cab and took the first train north
ward. He arrived mt Victoria early in
the morning. went to "A hotel. washed
and dressed himself, aHd purPu>cly de-
laying until the partners should have
reached the office i'm III. SwithiH lane,
he presented himself hrf"r. his en-
ployers as they were ENGAGED m dis
cusSing the morning l"i'cr~.
Hello. SIR cried MIR HndgSon. a.
he caught sight of the y"un" man.
What are you doing mere? Any thing
wrong?"
Nothing l. cong that know of.
SIR" said the y, ~ man. rpuily.
Then why are you here without
leavc?" asked the Junior partner.
'Didn't YOU get our letter iuf"rmin"
YOU of our new arrangements.
Il did. Mr.. Parr /; l. ga 1.nmS,.-
quence of that letter that HiI here
This was said with con~itrrthl, gravity.
and Tommy helped hm~,.Ii-iu e chair
as he spoke. i ain air',I. ~ir. he
continued, ''that / can n". arrrpl the
situation you were "aud ru"u.ii &"
offer me at Turin.
Don't them" bur-' uut oid Mr.
HodgSon. lin great wr:Ih ai the tone
which the Young man wa~ a~-uming.
well find fifty clerk ready 70 lump
at it, five hundred for i'i..f natter
''You forget, sir SAIL Tommy. re-
specially. but firmly. .'hai | have
been at Turin for some j!mr. know
the business there; and what ! came
here To propose was that should have
"a small share i'm the firm
Mr.. Parr stared aud calculated:
What. sir?''
Mr.. Dwford laughed aloud and then
swore.
Mr.. Hodg>ou choked and %aSprd f"I
breath. If a shell had burst in the
room ii could not have occ.l>i"nc,i more
surprise than Tommy modest request.
If Il sweeper at the next crossing had
demanded To he allowed +" help him
self from the drawers under the coun-
ter il would not have seemed - absurd
a. this demand of the junior clerks.
''Of course. having no capital. ex-
pect only very small share in the
business" continued Tommy; but
YOU will see that "a Count MarSoui'>